Rookies in the NFL make more money than some top 5 boxers

[Real King Kong]

damn, you're right...loma and Crawford should go play in the nfl.

[mvooom]

Dak next contract will be over 100 million for like 5 years. Just watch.

Also in the NFL at least 100 guys make over 1 million dollars a year while in boxing only like 15 boxers make over 1 million dollars a year.

Unlike NFL players, boxers are not constantly thinking about that career wondering where they will be in the next 4 years. That is a huge relief.

Most NFL players have a 3 years career span, 6 at best. They also play about 16x a year, while these boxers just get in 2x a year.

A good part of being a boxer, you get your own schedules... Sort of.

The best part of being a boxer, you can fight in January for $1m then fight in June for $5m and December for $20m. Your stock can grow over night while the big checks come in almost immediately.

[BLACK KNOT]

The NFL has peaked. In 20 years things will be different.

no it wont boxing will remain a niche sport. boxing will never be the most popular sport in the US.

[WesternChamp]

nfl players also plays every sunday when in season.

boxers only fight once - twice a year.

[BLACK KNOT]

Unlike NFL players, boxers are not constantly thinking about that career wondering where they will be in the next 4 years. That is a huge relief.

Most NFL players have a 3 years career span, 6 at best. They also play about 16x a year, while these boxers just get in 2x a year.

A good part of being a boxer, you get your own schedules... Sort of.

The best part of being a boxer, you can fight in January for $1m then fight in June for $5m and December for $20m. Your stock can grow over night while the big checks come in almost immediately.

that's not true in boxing any fight could be your last you could die or end up in a coma! nfl players can get guaranteed contracts. they also have a pension. boxers get nothing lol.

[Eddy Current]

no it wont boxing will remain a niche sport. boxing will never be the most popular sport in the US.

Oh I didn't mean boxing will be huge. I just meant the NFL won't be what it is now

[Metho_4u]

The only guys that make BIG money currently are Canelo & Joshua.


2018 NFL rookie Saquan Barkley will make 7 million dollars per year in the next 4 years not counting sponserships. While guys like Loma & Crawford barley make 1-2 million a year in their prime of their careers.

They also almost always suffer CTE... congrats to them

[sicko]

None of the best young athletes in America are choosing Boxing over the NFL or NBA that is never going to happen

Also boxing is just not as Popular as the other sports

[Southpawology]

Boxing is a small niche sport.

[Rubber Ducky]

That shouldn't surprise anyone really. Boxing is it's own worst enemy most of the time. In terms of it's organisation and professionalism it's amateur hour compared to big sports like the NFL and Association Football. Even Tennis is far more professional.

In the early part of the last century most sports like athletics, tennis, soccer, NFL, basketball etc were like boxing now, very amateurish, unstructured, no unions for players, no governing body with any real control over the whole of the sport, you had different associations all looking out for themselves like boxing now.

But those sports woke up and organised. Athletics turned professional as did tennis, they created a structured sport to help grow it's popularity. The Olympics is huge for athletics and they have the diamond league as well, while boxing is probably going to get kicked out of the Olympics. Tennis has grandslams and a lucrative tour. Soccer has the world cup and champions league as well as lucrative national leagues, NFL and the superbowl and the playoffs.

The NFL generated $13.16 billion in 2016, Soccer in the same year just in Europe generated 24.6 billion Euros. How much did boxing generate? Nobody knows because it's too disorganised and disjointed for anyone to be able to compile an accurate figure.